Sunday, June 30, 2013

Luis Marileo, young Mapuche Political Prisoner, Angol Prison, Chile: "I publicly denounce the great setup by the anti-Mapuche prosecutor Luis Chamorro"

Source: http://meli.mapuches.org/spip.php?article3025
Friday June 28, 2013  
By Commission of Communications / / Campaign to Free All Mapuche Political Prisoners

PUBLIC STATEMENT

I, Luis Marileo Cariqueo, 20 years old, from the Community Cacique Jose Guiñón, Ercilla, state:

Kiñe: that at being more than 10 months sequestered by the Chilean state, I publicly denounce the great setup by the anti-Mapuche prosecutor Luis Chamorro who until today has not accomplished anything significant in the case involving the death of farmer Hector Gallado Aillapan apart from lying and using large amounts of money to buy faceless witnesses and the family Gallardo, who, unfortunately, out of love for money and not for telling the truth, do not let the spirit of the dead rest in peace.


Epu: I have been harassed psychologically by the Chilean State: not letting me go to my grandmother's funeral, being the Chilean courts the ones that mocked me, because after first allowing me to attend, then, under political pressure, they denied me permission.

Küla: That they continue persecuting me for previous charges, without any proof, by the prosecution of Victoria they keep me charged in the toll Kino case, although the adults of that time already were acquitted, they keep me charged under the Anti-Terrorism Act despite that there is no evidence against me and at that time I was a minor. This cause is of the year 2009 and still they continue to persecute me.

Meli: Despite all of the above and the years I have been unjustly in prison, I stand firm, assuming with dignity the Judicial-political repression by the Chilean government.

Freedom for the Mapuche Political Prisoners 

 TO KEEP ON FIGHTING FOR THE TERRITORY AND ALL OUR NATURE

Luis Marileo Cariqueo Angol prison, June 27, 2013 

Sunday, June 23, 2013

PUBLIC STATEMENT BY LEONARDO QUIJÓN PEREIRA, YOUNG MAPUCHE POLITICAL PRISONER, FROM THE PRISON IN ANGOL, CHILE

From the prison in Angol, we inform the national and international public opinion that:

Kiñe: That on June 5, 2013, I was presented at a hearing within the Courts of Collipulli, and the date was postponed until June 28. Today June 21, 2013 without notice, I am taken destined to the trial which seeks to convict me for one of the many cases that I have been charged with. (10:00 hrs.)


Epu: That because of this attitude from the Chilean courts of "justice", the right to due process is violated, and thereby discriminated against accused in indigenous causes. Furthermore this is also about an act of isolation and misinformation to his family members.
In conclusion here are being violated international rights enshrined in the Convention 169 (ILO) of the indigenous peoples.


Küla: We inform the public that these deeds can not continue to happen, because any one of Mapuche political prisoners may be a victim of this repression like what has happened in previous cases where the Mapuche were convicted using repressive laws inherited from the military dictatorship. (Anti-Terrorism Act, Interior State Security Act)

Meli: I can not ask at this time that you come and support my family or me, but on this day where we celebrate our We Tripantu, I hope that with the new sunrise there will be new opportunities and JUSTICE for our people, because this fight is fair and legitimate.

Chaltumay. Lemorria kom pu lamngen, kom pu che.

Marichiweu!
Marichiweu!
Marichiweu!
Marichiweu!
Collipulli, June 21, 2013 MAPUCHE TERRITORY! 

Saturday, June 22, 2013

Young Mapuche Political Prisoner Gabriel Valenzuela Montoya now 41 days on Hunger Strike in the Prison for Minors in Chol Chol, Chile

PUBLIC STATEMENT FROM THE PRISON IN CHOL CHOL
June 19, 2013

At 38 days on hunger strike, Gabriel Valenzuela Montoya , young Mapuche political prisoner, imprisoned for over nine months in the prison for minors in Chol Chol, informs to the Mapuche nation, to the national and international public opinion, the following:


Kiñe: So far I have lost about 8 kilos, weeks ago I started having chest, bone and muscle pains, I suffered a tachycardia, which took me to the Hospital in Nueva Imperial, until they got me stabilized. This situation gets worse day by day, but I stand firm in the decision to continue my hunger strike until my transfer to the module for community members in the prison in Angol.

Epu: on Friday June 14 I sent letters to various bodies that can accelerate and concretize my transfer to the module for community members in the prison in Angol, receivng a response from the National Institute of Human Rights, through the voice of Ms. Paula Salvo, who has agreed to hold talks with the necessary agencies that may affect my transfer. Considering that I will not lay down my strike until I am together with my peñi and my family, in the prison in Angol.

Küla: From this prison for minors in Chol Chol, I am asking all the people and institutions to understand my need to be near my land, my community, my family, as a young Mapuche, to maintain these relationships on a daily basis is part of our blood, of the education given to us by our grandparents. Though in this juvenile prison there are young people my age, I have to acknowledge that they are young people from different realities, with different needs, we have nothing more in common than our age. I need to continue to strengthen my identity, I need to chat with some peñi every morning about my pewma (dreams), talk about our trials, learn more about our territorial and family history. And here, at over 3 hours of travel, in another territory, once a week, that is impossible.

Meli: I demand from this prison that has kept me away from my family, where the Chilean State holds me sequestered and isolated, that my trial is restarted, that it shall be a fair and transparent trial, without faceless witnesses and no secret evidence, invented by the Anti-Mapuche Prosecutor Luis Chamorro. I demand that the political persecution against our people, our community, will be denounced every day by those who are aware of our struggle.
 FREEDOM TO ALL MAPUCHE POLITICAL PRISONERS
TERRITORIAL FREEDOM FOR THE MAPUCHE NATION
NO MORE SETUPS BY ANTI MAPUCHE PROSECUTOR LUIS CHAMORRO.

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Mapuche Community Antonio Panitru in Bajo Malleko, denounces armed police attack, Chile

These are some of the shell casings and other remnants that we were able to collect, since the rest were picked up by the police and they took them away.
By Mirko Collio, Werkén of the community Mallekoche
Wallmapu, June 17, 2013

To the general public we state the following:


This Sunday June 16th, between 21:00 and 22:00 hrs, when our families were preparing for sleeping, a large police contingent toured the interior roads of the Mapuche community Antonio Panitru in Bajo Malleko, seeking to enter the the property of one of the Kimches (wise elder) of the Community Antonio Panitru. Upon noticing the situation and for the hour we started playing our Kulkul, at which Police officers approached the homes from where came the sounds of our traditional instrument and they began to shoot their weapons at point blank range at the homes.
We believe this is a clear sign of harassment, provocation and aggression against our Mapuche Nation by the police forces, who covered by the darkness of night fired repeatedly on two homes, inhabited by leaders of the community Mallekoche.
We must point out that these acts undermine the physical and psychological integrity of the people who unexpectedly came under fire by these uniformed forces. It should be noted that children who attend schools in the city of Collipulli, Ercilla and elsewhere could not sleep all night because of the experienced situation.
Therefore we, as Mapuche community Antonio Panitru and the community Mallekoche, categorically reject these acts, hoping that this situation will not be repeated, since the response to these abuses will be different.
Furthermore we call on the Mapuche communities to remain alert and report the abusive acts of provocation, harassment and persecution by the police forces.

Freedom for all Mapuche Political Prisoners!
Weuwaiñ! Marrichiwew!

Monday, June 17, 2013

Public Statement by Werkén Daniel Melinao, Mapuche Political Prisoner, Chile

Source: http://meli.mapuches.org/spip.php?article3019
Monday June 17, 2013, by Commission of Communications / / Campaign to Free All Political Prisoners Mapuche

To our Mapuche People-Nation, the communities in resistance and the general public:

I, Daniel Melinao Melinao, Werkén of the Community Wente Winkul Mapu of Chequenco, sequestered by the Chilean state in the prison of Angol, declare as follows:

Kiñe: At nearly two months of my imprisonment, and without any real basis or slightest evidence that can link me to the death of Sergeant Albornoz, I reaffirm my innocence, as I stated from the outset, and in conjunction with our community, we provide all the collaborative effort to clarify the facts, occurred in one of the countless brutal attacks we have had to suffer by the repressive forces.

Epu: That after more than a year of research, with unlimited resources, anti-Mapuche prosecutor Chamorro has failed to deliver any new antecedent to justify my arrest as a co-author of the death of Sergeant Albornoz and even less to endorse the hunt undertaken against our peñi Eric Montoya, who is marked as the direct author of the death and even more, when all the elements continue to show that it was the result of crossfire between police themselves in their violent abandon.

Küla: Since the arrest warrant was issued against us two days after winning before the Supreme Court, for the third time, a mistrial of a case condemning pu peñi of the Community for attempted homicide of militarized police and that the pretrial detention was only achieved through deception and absurd lies presented by the prosecution and intelligence services before the court of Collipulli and the court of Temuco, it is proved that this persecution only responds to a political-Judicial strategy, which seeks, through imprisonment and persecution of Mapuche fighters, to try and stop our just struggle.
    
Meli: The ruthless repression against our Community we can only explain as a result of the recovery process of our territory, which we developed with the idea of ​​autonomy and self-management, without negotiations or accepting charities from those who have usurped our lands and despite my prison, of the unjust imprisonment of our peñi Gabriel Valenzuela on hunger strike in Chol-Chol, of the forced clandestinity of Eric Montoya and trials which start soon against other peñi, the Community has successfully completed planting on territories in productive recovery.

Kechu: As Werkén of the Community Wente Winkul Mapu, which for years has been enduring the repressive action of the state, with its aftermath of children, women and elderly people wounded by bullets, buckshot, homes destroyed and almost all members prosecuted in setups, I express our complete solidarity to the Chilean students who are suffering the brutal repression as well known and experienced by us.

Finally I invite the communities in resistance and all 
Mapuche and non-Mapuche supportive of our dignified struggle, to join us in the celebration of We Tripantu, to be held at the prison in Angol, on Saturday June 22 from 10am.
Immediate transfer of peñi Gabriel Valenzuela to Angol prison!
Freedom for all Mapuche political prisoners!
FOR THE TOTAL RECOVERY OF OUR TERRITORY ONWARD TO VICTORY ALWAYS

Daniel Melinao, Angol prison, June 16, 2013  

Mapuche Voices Silenced By Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Chile, Costa Rica



Source: http://www.santiagotimes.cl/chile/human-rights-a-law/26270-indigenous-chileans-silenced-in-international-court-case


Returning from an historic test of Chile's anti-terrorist law in front of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, two of the plaintiffs say their voices went unheard.

Mapuche leader Segundo Aniceto Norín Catrimán and activist Patricia Troncoso Robles were plaintiffs in a case against Chile at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights last week. However, neither of them were able to share their stories.

Norín and Troncoso, both represented by Chilean lawyer Ylenia Hartog, traveled to Costa Rica to present their case. They told press Wednesday that despite making the journey, their voices were “silenced by the court.”

“When I went there, there were seven Mapuche brothers but they only let three speak,” Norín said. “I was there to discuss what had happened over those many years which was part of the case, and I was not allowed.”

The case is centered on Chilean authorities’ use of the anti-terrorist law. The petitioners are asking the court to call on the Chilean government to stop applying the law to cases involving Mapuche land reclamation. Under the controversial law, police can hold suspects without bail ahead of their trial, the cases can be heard by military courts, anonymous testimony is submittable as primary evidence and charges against the accused can carry higher penalties than dictated under regular Chilean law.

Norín was sentenced for five years and a day under the anti-terrorist law for arson and making “terrorist threats” against the landowners whose property was set ablaze. Troncoso was also sentenced under the controversial law for arson charges. She was charged as a terrorist and given ten years and a day for the crime.

Human rights groups, including Amnesty International, have raised concerned about the regular and disproportionate application of the anti-terrorist law against the indigenous Mapuche in southern Chile.

“We went there to discuss, we were invited,” Troncoso said. “This organization had the responsibility of generating a summary of the process of reclaiming our lands, and our fight against the state and of the state against us.”

An impassioned Troncoso explained the importance of the case at the international court for her and for the Mapuche people.

“We had the responsibility to to tell about the experiences we’ve had,” Troncoso said. “What we wanted was to accomplish a profound analysis of the situation because it isn’t simple.”

The activist added that those present understood the ongoing oppression of the indigenous community, and “the cost that it means for each child, each man, each woman.”

The hearings in the case at the Inter-American Court of Human concluded last week, and the court is currently deliberating with a decision expected in the coming weeks.

By Charlotte Karrlsson-Willis (kwillis@santiagotimes.cl)
Copyright 2013 Santiago Times

Two Mapuche plaintiffs have been denied their rights of natural justice in legal proceedings involving a case against Chile at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
Below is an article published by the Santiago times
Mapuche leader Segundo Aniceto Norín Catrimán and activist Patricia Troncoso Robles were plaintiffs in a case against Chile at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights last week. However, neither of them were able to share their stories.
Norín and Troncoso, both represented by Chilean lawyer Ylenia Hartog, traveled to Costa Rica to present their case. They told press Wednesday that despite making the journey, their voices were “silenced by the court.”

“When I went there, there were seven Mapuche brothers but they only let three speak,” Norín said. “I was there to discuss what had happened over those many years which was part of the case, and I was not allowed.”

The case is centered on Chilean authorities’ use of the anti-terrorist law. The petitioners are asking the court to call on the Chilean government to stop applying the law to cases involving Mapuche land reclamation. Under the controversial law, police can hold suspects without bail ahead of their trial, the cases can be heard by military courts, anonymous testimony is submittable as primary evidence and charges against the accused can carry higher penalties than dictated under regular Chilean law.

Norín was sentenced for five years and a day under the anti-terrorist law for arson and making “terrorist threats” against the landowners whose property was set ablaze. Troncoso was also sentenced under the controversial law for arson charges. She was charged as a terrorist and given ten years and a day for the crime.

Human rights groups, including Amnesty International, have raised concerned about the regular and disproportionate application of the anti-terrorist law against the indigenous Mapuche in southern Chile.

“We went there to discuss, we were invited,” Troncoso said. “This organization had the responsibility of generating a summary of the process of reclaiming our lands, and our fight against the state and of the state against us.”

An impassioned Troncoso explained the importance of the case at the international court for her and for the Mapuche people.

“We had the responsibility to to tell about the experiences we’ve had,” Troncoso said. “What we wanted was to accomplish a profound analysis of the situation because it isn’t simple.”

The activist added that those present understood the ongoing oppression of the indigenous community, and “the cost that it means for each child, each man, each woman.”

The hearings in the case at the Inter-American Court of Human concluded last week, and the court is currently deliberating with a decision expected in the coming weeks.
- See more at: http://www.unpo.org/article/16021#sthash.oYucK520.dpuf
Two Mapuche plaintiffs have been denied their rights of natural justice in legal proceedings involving a case against Chile at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
Below is an article published by the Santiago times
Mapuche leader Segundo Aniceto Norín Catrimán and activist Patricia Troncoso Robles were plaintiffs in a case against Chile at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights last week. However, neither of them were able to share their stories.
Norín and Troncoso, both represented by Chilean lawyer Ylenia Hartog, traveled to Costa Rica to present their case. They told press Wednesday that despite making the journey, their voices were “silenced by the court.”

“When I went there, there were seven Mapuche brothers but they only let three speak,” Norín said. “I was there to discuss what had happened over those many years which was part of the case, and I was not allowed.”

The case is centered on Chilean authorities’ use of the anti-terrorist law. The petitioners are asking the court to call on the Chilean government to stop applying the law to cases involving Mapuche land reclamation. Under the controversial law, police can hold suspects without bail ahead of their trial, the cases can be heard by military courts, anonymous testimony is submittable as primary evidence and charges against the accused can carry higher penalties than dictated under regular Chilean law.

Norín was sentenced for five years and a day under the anti-terrorist law for arson and making “terrorist threats” against the landowners whose property was set ablaze. Troncoso was also sentenced under the controversial law for arson charges. She was charged as a terrorist and given ten years and a day for the crime.

Human rights groups, including Amnesty International, have raised concerned about the regular and disproportionate application of the anti-terrorist law against the indigenous Mapuche in southern Chile.

“We went there to discuss, we were invited,” Troncoso said. “This organization had the responsibility of generating a summary of the process of reclaiming our lands, and our fight against the state and of the state against us.”

An impassioned Troncoso explained the importance of the case at the international court for her and for the Mapuche people.

“We had the responsibility to to tell about the experiences we’ve had,” Troncoso said. “What we wanted was to accomplish a profound analysis of the situation because it isn’t simple.”

The activist added that those present understood the ongoing oppression of the indigenous community, and “the cost that it means for each child, each man, each woman.”

The hearings in the case at the Inter-American Court of Human concluded last week, and the court is currently deliberating with a decision expected in the coming weeks.
- See more at: http://www.unpo.org/article/16021#sthash.oYucK520.dpuf
Two Mapuche plaintiffs have been denied their rights of natural justice in legal proceedings involving a case against Chile at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
Below is an article published by the Santiago times
Mapuche leader Segundo Aniceto Norín Catrimán and activist Patricia Troncoso Robles were plaintiffs in a case against Chile at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights last week. However, neither of them were able to share their stories.
Norín and Troncoso, both represented by Chilean lawyer Ylenia Hartog, traveled to Costa Rica to present their case. They told press Wednesday that despite making the journey, their voices were “silenced by the court.”

“When I went there, there were seven Mapuche brothers but they only let three speak,” Norín said. “I was there to discuss what had happened over those many years which was part of the case, and I was not allowed.”

The case is centered on Chilean authorities’ use of the anti-terrorist law. The petitioners are asking the court to call on the Chilean government to stop applying the law to cases involving Mapuche land reclamation. Under the controversial law, police can hold suspects without bail ahead of their trial, the cases can be heard by military courts, anonymous testimony is submittable as primary evidence and charges against the accused can carry higher penalties than dictated under regular Chilean law.

Norín was sentenced for five years and a day under the anti-terrorist law for arson and making “terrorist threats” against the landowners whose property was set ablaze. Troncoso was also sentenced under the controversial law for arson charges. She was charged as a terrorist and given ten years and a day for the crime.

Human rights groups, including Amnesty International, have raised concerned about the regular and disproportionate application of the anti-terrorist law against the indigenous Mapuche in southern Chile.

“We went there to discuss, we were invited,” Troncoso said. “This organization had the responsibility of generating a summary of the process of reclaiming our lands, and our fight against the state and of the state against us.”

An impassioned Troncoso explained the importance of the case at the international court for her and for the Mapuche people.

“We had the responsibility to to tell about the experiences we’ve had,” Troncoso said. “What we wanted was to accomplish a profound analysis of the situation because it isn’t simple.”

The activist added that those present understood the ongoing oppression of the indigenous community, and “the cost that it means for each child, each man, each woman.”

The hearings in the case at the Inter-American Court of Human concluded last week, and the court is currently deliberating with a decision expected in the coming weeks.
- See more at: http://www.unpo.org/article/16021#sthash.oYucK520.dpuf
Two Mapuche plaintiffs have been denied their rights of natural justice in legal proceedings involving a case against Chile at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
Below is an article published by the Santiago times
Mapuche leader Segundo Aniceto Norín Catrimán and activist Patricia Troncoso Robles were plaintiffs in a case against Chile at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights last week. However, neither of them were able to share their stories.
Norín and Troncoso, both represented by Chilean lawyer Ylenia Hartog, traveled to Costa Rica to present their case. They told press Wednesday that despite making the journey, their voices were “silenced by the court.”

“When I went there, there were seven Mapuche brothers but they only let three speak,” Norín said. “I was there to discuss what had happened over those many years which was part of the case, and I was not allowed.”

The case is centered on Chilean authorities’ use of the anti-terrorist law. The petitioners are asking the court to call on the Chilean government to stop applying the law to cases involving Mapuche land reclamation. Under the controversial law, police can hold suspects without bail ahead of their trial, the cases can be heard by military courts, anonymous testimony is submittable as primary evidence and charges against the accused can carry higher penalties than dictated under regular Chilean law.

Norín was sentenced for five years and a day under the anti-terrorist law for arson and making “terrorist threats” against the landowners whose property was set ablaze. Troncoso was also sentenced under the controversial law for arson charges. She was charged as a terrorist and given ten years and a day for the crime.

Human rights groups, including Amnesty International, have raised concerned about the regular and disproportionate application of the anti-terrorist law against the indigenous Mapuche in southern Chile.

“We went there to discuss, we were invited,” Troncoso said. “This organization had the responsibility of generating a summary of the process of reclaiming our lands, and our fight against the state and of the state against us.”

An impassioned Troncoso explained the importance of the case at the international court for her and for the Mapuche people.

“We had the responsibility to to tell about the experiences we’ve had,” Troncoso said. “What we wanted was to accomplish a profound analysis of the situation because it isn’t simple.”

The activist added that those present understood the ongoing oppression of the indigenous community, and “the cost that it means for each child, each man, each woman.”

The hearings in the case at the Inter-American Court of Human concluded last week, and the court is currently deliberating with a decision expected in the coming weeks.
- See more at: http://www.unpo.org/article/16021#sthash.oYucK520.dpuf
Two Mapuche plaintiffs have been denied their rights of natural justice in legal proceedings involving a case against Chile at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
Below is an article published by the Santiago times
Mapuche leader Segundo Aniceto Norín Catrimán and activist Patricia Troncoso Robles were plaintiffs in a case against Chile at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights last week. However, neither of them were able to share their stories.
Norín and Troncoso, both represented by Chilean lawyer Ylenia Hartog, traveled to Costa Rica to present their case. They told press Wednesday that despite making the journey, their voices were “silenced by the court.”

“When I went there, there were seven Mapuche brothers but they only let three speak,” Norín said. “I was there to discuss what had happened over those many years which was part of the case, and I was not allowed.”

The case is centered on Chilean authorities’ use of the anti-terrorist law. The petitioners are asking the court to call on the Chilean government to stop applying the law to cases involving Mapuche land reclamation. Under the controversial law, police can hold suspects without bail ahead of their trial, the cases can be heard by military courts, anonymous testimony is submittable as primary evidence and charges against the accused can carry higher penalties than dictated under regular Chilean law.

Norín was sentenced for five years and a day under the anti-terrorist law for arson and making “terrorist threats” against the landowners whose property was set ablaze. Troncoso was also sentenced under the controversial law for arson charges. She was charged as a terrorist and given ten years and a day for the crime.

Human rights groups, including Amnesty International, have raised concerned about the regular and disproportionate application of the anti-terrorist law against the indigenous Mapuche in southern Chile.

“We went there to discuss, we were invited,” Troncoso said. “This organization had the responsibility of generating a summary of the process of reclaiming our lands, and our fight against the state and of the state against us.”

An impassioned Troncoso explained the importance of the case at the international court for her and for the Mapuche people.

“We had the responsibility to to tell about the experiences we’ve had,” Troncoso said. “What we wanted was to accomplish a profound analysis of the situation because it isn’t simple.”

The activist added that those present understood the ongoing oppression of the indigenous community, and “the cost that it means for each child, each man, each woman.”

The hearings in the case at the Inter-American Court of Human concluded last week, and the court is currently deliberating with a decision expected in the coming weeks.
- See more at: http://www.unpo.org/article/16021#sthash.oYucK520.dpuf

Friday, June 14, 2013

New Statement by spokesperson of Gabriel Valenzuela Montoya, young Mapuche Political Prisoner, Chol Chol, Chile

June 13, 2013

For the Mapuche people and the national and international public opinion, from the Prison for Minors in Chol Chol.


We inform you that Gabriel Valenzuela Montoya young Mapuche political prisoner on hunger strike for the last 33 days, has decided to abandon its thirst strike, which began yesterday, June 12. This step was taken as a way to radicalize his hunger strike as leverage for changing the preventive detention injunction affecting him. Unfortunately, the Court of Appeals rejected the defense's appeal and upheld the decision to keep Gabriel in custody, demonstrating the unwillingness of the courts of justice to grant the possibility of returning home to this young Mapuche, who they have held imprisoned and isolated from his family and community for the past nine months.

Given this abusive and unfair scenario, directed by big political and corporate powers, Gabriel Valenzuela has decided to continue his hunger strike, for now returning to ingest liquids, until obtaining his transfer to the prison in Angol, to the module of community members, to be able to be closer to his family, and in the company of other Mapuche brothers, who are also victims of political persecution by the State. 

Therefore, we appeal to the indications of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Article 37: "In particular, every child deprived of liberty shall be separated from adults unless it is considered in the best interest of the child." Gabriel Valenzuela has taken this step considering that he already has come of age in the juvenile prison, and it is a dire need for him, to maintain his physical and psychological integrity, which can only be achieved through the transfer, ending his isolation and distance from the family.

We reported that the state of health of Gabriel has begun to deteriorate, and today was his first transfer to the Hospital in Imperial after a tachycardia diagnosed by the doctor of the CIP-CRC, at the same time strong bones and muscle pain keep him in a state of constant weakening.

From the prison in Chol Chol, on behalf of Gabriel Valenzuela and his family, we call on all those who trust in the innocence of Gabriel to denounce with all possible means, the injustices and human rights violations that the Chilean State exercises daily in the communities and prisons in the region against Mapuche political prisoners.
FREEDOM TO ALL MAPUCHE POLITICAL PRISONERS
TERRITORIAL FREEDOM FOR THE MAPUCHE
PEOPLE
STOP THE SETUPS BY THE ANTI MAPUCHE PROSECUTOR LUIS CHAMORRO
 
 
 
 

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Announcement of Thirst Strike by Gabriel Valenzuela Montoya, under age Mapuche political prisoner, Chile

PUBLIC STATEMENT FROM THE PRISON FOR MINORS IN CHOL CHOL

From the prison for minors in Chol Chol, I inform the Mapuche Nation and the national and international public opinion, the following:

I, Gabriel Valenzuela Montoya, under age Mapuche political prisoner, imprisoned for more than nine months in the CIP CRC Chol Chol, declare that after 30 days on hunger strike, and no response by the State and Justice regarding my demands, I announce that from today, June 11, 2013, I begin a THIRST STRIKE, which I will maintain until sacrificing my life for my people and my freedom.


I see clearly that the advanced deterioration of my health status, a result of the hunger strike which I hold since May 13, may jeopardize my physical integrity, but I assume hereby all that that implies in order for my claim to be heard:

· My immediate freedom under house arrest while
the investigative process continues.

This is covered in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which emphasizes in Article 37 that "The States shall ensure that no child is subjected to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. That prison will be used only as a last resort and for the shortest appropriate period". 

Needless to say that the State of Chile breaches this treaty each time that it raids our communities and tortures Mapuche children, when they are processed and incarcerated, violating our physical and emotional integrity. 

Lastly, from the juvenile prison in Chol Chol, I appeal to all my people to support me in this just demand for my FREEDOM, I appeal to those who support us on different fronts of struggle, continue to denounce, to continue visiting the prisons, to continue defending our territory from encroachment, overexploitation and the hands of the capitalist.

FREEDOM TO ALL MAPUCHE POLITICAL PRISONERS
IMMEDIATE FREEDOM OF OUR TERRITORY
NO MORE SETUPS CREATED BY
THE ANTI MAPUCHE PROSECUTOR LUIS CHAMORRO